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Monday, September 30, 2013

NY Post Uses De Blasio's Father's Suicide Against Him

We know from the hacking scandal that ended up with Rupert Murdoch's News of the World closed and dozens of Murdoch journalists from the NOTW and The Sun facing criminal charges for hacking, bribery and conspiracy that ethics is not a strong suit in the Murdoch Empire.

Murdoch's Post has been hammering Bill de Blasio for a few weeks now, calling him a commie pink, Sandanista-loving Marxist and all sorts of other things, but today, they really hit bottom.

At 2:06 pm, Bill de Blasio's campaign sent out a statement about his father's death in 1979.

“While
this has been a private part of my family’s life, it is now clear a
media story will soon emerge," it reads. "My father tragically ended his
life while battling terminal cancer in 1979.”

The de Blasio camp did not immediately responds to requests for further information.

Shortly after de Blasio's statement was released, the New York Postpublished a report with some details about the death of de Blasio's father, Warren Wilhelm. The Post
cited a Connecticut police report, and a local news report, which said
de Blasio's father died of a self-inflicted gun shot wound in a parked
car outside a motel in New Milford, Connecticut. He was 61 years old,
and battling late-stage cancer.

(The publication that first wrote about the death of de Blasio's father back in 1979 was The New Milford Times. It later became the Housatonc Times, which discontinued publication this past June.)

De
Blasio was born Warren Wilhelm Jr., named for his father, who de Blasio
has said was an Army officer in World War II. De Blasio has also said
his father struggled with alcoholism and wasn't around much when de
Blasio was a child.

De Blasio's parents were divorced, and he eventually adopted his mother's maiden name as his own last name.